This Bear Eats Fascists
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Essayist and long-time lefty, writing from the temperate rainforest of California's rural north coast. An independent voice for an independent California. #Mutualist / #LibertarianSocialist and down to scrap.
Essayist and long-time lefty, writing from the temperate rainforest of California's rural north coast. An independent voice for an independent California. #Mutualist / #LibertarianSocialist and down to scrap.
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Electoral Politics
Why American politics don't work for the majority, electoral reform, and how to get the change we need.
www.thisbear.com
A thread with links to several of my essays!
This first one is in the futility of American electoral politics (spoiler: it's how the system was designed). It is essential reading for anyone wondering why voting isn't addressing any of the big issues. www.thisbear.com/electoral-po...
This first one is in the futility of American electoral politics (spoiler: it's how the system was designed). It is essential reading for anyone wondering why voting isn't addressing any of the big issues. www.thisbear.com/electoral-po...
The killing of 150 children was a war crime. Everyone responsible, including military command & the executives of Palantir, should be charged and convicted. They won't be of course because the US is a fundamentally lawless rogue state - and has been for decades. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
www.bloomberg.com
October 2, 2026 at 11:48 PM
The killing of 150 children was a war crime. Everyone responsible, including military command & the executives of Palantir, should be charged and convicted. They won't be of course because the US is a fundamentally lawless rogue state - and has been for decades. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
If every #politician in America climbed into a woodchipper instead of texting me asking for money, it would save us all a lot of time and hassle. Please and thank you.
October 2, 2026 at 7:43 PM
If every #politician in America climbed into a woodchipper instead of texting me asking for money, it would save us all a lot of time and hassle. Please and thank you.
A useful reminder for Halloween / Samhain.
October 2, 2026 at 7:27 PM
A useful reminder for Halloween / Samhain.
Same goes for the United States. Break up all the old empires, we'd all be better off independent.
September 15, 2026 at 7:45 AM
Same goes for the United States. Break up all the old empires, we'd all be better off independent.
Without hesitation.
September 15, 2026 at 7:25 AM
Without hesitation.
This is me, being just petty enough to report all of the US Military ads in my social feeds as "misleading" or "promotes violence" and all of the AI ads as copyright infringements.
It's the little things that make the day bearable.
It's the little things that make the day bearable.
September 12, 2026 at 6:20 AM
This is me, being just petty enough to report all of the US Military ads in my social feeds as "misleading" or "promotes violence" and all of the AI ads as copyright infringements.
It's the little things that make the day bearable.
It's the little things that make the day bearable.
Funny how the filth tackles and arrests a man for peacefully speaking up against a crime, while the criminals selling stolen land are protected.
Also, that pig punching him over and over while he's pinned on the ground is everything that's wrong with police everywhere.
Fuck cops and fuck Zionists.
Also, that pig punching him over and over while he's pinned on the ground is everything that's wrong with police everywhere.
Fuck cops and fuck Zionists.
British humanitarian arrested for protesting the selling of occupied Palestinian lands in UK synagogues🇵🇸😢🇱🇧
August 26, 2026 at 6:22 AM
Funny how the filth tackles and arrests a man for peacefully speaking up against a crime, while the criminals selling stolen land are protected.
Also, that pig punching him over and over while he's pinned on the ground is everything that's wrong with police everywhere.
Fuck cops and fuck Zionists.
Also, that pig punching him over and over while he's pinned on the ground is everything that's wrong with police everywhere.
Fuck cops and fuck Zionists.
It occurs to me that one of the most dangerous parts of any political or economic system based on inequality is that the people at the top inevitably end up surrounded by people who depend on them for their livelihoods.
And those people can't say "no" without risking those livelihoods.
And those people can't say "no" without risking those livelihoods.
August 26, 2026 at 6:11 AM
It occurs to me that one of the most dangerous parts of any political or economic system based on inequality is that the people at the top inevitably end up surrounded by people who depend on them for their livelihoods.
And those people can't say "no" without risking those livelihoods.
And those people can't say "no" without risking those livelihoods.
Can we all just admit that #Israel is racist as fuck? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Netanyahu party campaign billboard likens Mamdani to leaders of Iran and Hezbollah
Likud’s depiction of Zohran Mamdani is latest move in spat between Israel’s prime minister and New York City mayor
www.theguardian.com
August 19, 2026 at 3:44 AM
Can we all just admit that #Israel is racist as fuck? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Israel's National Security Administrator just declared Palestinians are "not worthy of life."
These people are monsters. Every American politician and voter that supports continuing to fund Israel's ongoing genocide is an accomplice.
www.timesofisrael.com/ben-gvir-we-...
These people are monsters. Every American politician and voter that supports continuing to fund Israel's ongoing genocide is an accomplice.
www.timesofisrael.com/ben-gvir-we-...
Ben Gvir: We should kill ’30 to 40′ of Israel’s enemies in Gaza every night, ‘they’re not worthy of life’
In comments made to ex-hostage and shared widely in Arab media, minister says IDF should even kill operatives that don't pose immediate threat: 'They shouldn't live, they're not even people'
www.timesofisrael.com
August 18, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Israel's National Security Administrator just declared Palestinians are "not worthy of life."
These people are monsters. Every American politician and voter that supports continuing to fund Israel's ongoing genocide is an accomplice.
www.timesofisrael.com/ben-gvir-we-...
These people are monsters. Every American politician and voter that supports continuing to fund Israel's ongoing genocide is an accomplice.
www.timesofisrael.com/ben-gvir-we-...
Reminder that #Obama murdered more than a thousand people with illegal drone strikes during his 8 years in office.
And yes, this is STILL relevant because I still see #Liberals gushing about what a great man this mass murderer is.
www.globalresearch.ca/almost-90-pe...
And yes, this is STILL relevant because I still see #Liberals gushing about what a great man this mass murderer is.
www.globalresearch.ca/almost-90-pe...
www.globalresearch.ca
August 11, 2026 at 6:17 AM
Reminder that #Obama murdered more than a thousand people with illegal drone strikes during his 8 years in office.
And yes, this is STILL relevant because I still see #Liberals gushing about what a great man this mass murderer is.
www.globalresearch.ca/almost-90-pe...
And yes, this is STILL relevant because I still see #Liberals gushing about what a great man this mass murderer is.
www.globalresearch.ca/almost-90-pe...
Your daily reminder that #Democrats would rather lose to #Republicans than let anyone to their left win. They are not the opposition to #MAGA, they are accomplices. time.com/article/2026...
In Wisconsin, Moderates Hope Crowley Can Block Socialist Hong
David Crowley was supposed to be on a vacation in Jamaica. Instead, he's back in the governors' race, and moderate Democrats' best hope.
time.com
August 11, 2026 at 6:16 AM
Your daily reminder that #Democrats would rather lose to #Republicans than let anyone to their left win. They are not the opposition to #MAGA, they are accomplices. time.com/article/2026...
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A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class.
This is Kirk's legacy.
You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
This is Kirk's legacy.
You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
September 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class.
This is Kirk's legacy.
You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
This is Kirk's legacy.
You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
#ElonMusk speaks at far-right rally in #London promoting racism and xenophobia. Every person of conscience must stop supporting his companies - or any other company that does business with them. #Tesla, #Starlink, all of them. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Police hurt during Tommy Robinson's Unite the Kingdom rally in London
Some 25 arrests are made after "unacceptable violence" at demonstrations in central London, police say.
www.bbc.com
September 14, 2025 at 9:55 AM
#ElonMusk speaks at far-right rally in #London promoting racism and xenophobia. Every person of conscience must stop supporting his companies - or any other company that does business with them. #Tesla, #Starlink, all of them. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Charlie Kirk is finally a good fascist.
September 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Charlie Kirk is finally a good fascist.
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Luigi
I am once again asking you to be angry that US healthcare ranks 69th in the world for overall quality but it is BY FAR the most expensive healthcare in the world.
I am once again asking you to be angry that US healthcare ranks 69th in the world for overall quality but it is BY FAR the most expensive healthcare in the world.
September 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Luigi
I am once again asking you to be angry that US healthcare ranks 69th in the world for overall quality but it is BY FAR the most expensive healthcare in the world.
I am once again asking you to be angry that US healthcare ranks 69th in the world for overall quality but it is BY FAR the most expensive healthcare in the world.
The Senator's vision was the common understanding of most white Americans for centuries, and is the ideology that was explicitly used to justify the conquest and annexation of California and the west. He's just saying the quiet part out loud. slate.com/news-and-pol...
A Sitting Senator Just Went Full Mask-Off White Nationalist
America, he says, isn’t an idea—and isn’t for everyone.
slate.com
September 6, 2025 at 9:22 PM
The Senator's vision was the common understanding of most white Americans for centuries, and is the ideology that was explicitly used to justify the conquest and annexation of California and the west. He's just saying the quiet part out loud. slate.com/news-and-pol...
This is me pleading with you to stop thinking of D and R as opposing parties. They are 2 parts of the same system, funded and owned by billionaires.
R moves the window Right, D absorbs and defuses left opposition to make sure it never moves back. Over and over, every election.
R moves the window Right, D absorbs and defuses left opposition to make sure it never moves back. Over and over, every election.
September 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
This is me pleading with you to stop thinking of D and R as opposing parties. They are 2 parts of the same system, funded and owned by billionaires.
R moves the window Right, D absorbs and defuses left opposition to make sure it never moves back. Over and over, every election.
R moves the window Right, D absorbs and defuses left opposition to make sure it never moves back. Over and over, every election.
Friendly reminder that what #Israel is doing in #Palestine - with full backing from the American Empire - is not a war. A war is an armed conflict between States.
This is a campaign of extermination against a largely unarmed civilian population with the goal of erasing them and taking their land.
This is a campaign of extermination against a largely unarmed civilian population with the goal of erasing them and taking their land.
September 6, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Friendly reminder that what #Israel is doing in #Palestine - with full backing from the American Empire - is not a war. A war is an armed conflict between States.
This is a campaign of extermination against a largely unarmed civilian population with the goal of erasing them and taking their land.
This is a campaign of extermination against a largely unarmed civilian population with the goal of erasing them and taking their land.
This is the actual reason for the big increase in gun deaths among youth - suicide. Maybe if we don't want young people to harm themselves we should work as a society on not destroying the entire biosphere while billionaires impoverish everything and everyone else. www.cnbc.com/2023/12/05/y...
Youth suicide rates rose 62% from 2007 to 2021: 'People feel hopeless,' one recent grad says
Even for young adults who seemingly have every financial or educational advantage, the current economic and political climate can fuel distress.
www.cnbc.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
This is the actual reason for the big increase in gun deaths among youth - suicide. Maybe if we don't want young people to harm themselves we should work as a society on not destroying the entire biosphere while billionaires impoverish everything and everyone else. www.cnbc.com/2023/12/05/y...
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Race is obviously a predictor in LEO shootings, but mult studies find that certain disabilities (e.g. autism & deafness) are higher predictors of cop violence than race. Combine disability, inability to communicate and race, and the triad predicts violent cop overreaction like Cassandra pred'd Troy.
"...like a death squad or a firing squad.” Autistic teen with cerebral palsy shot nine times—from other side of fence—12 seconds after cops arrive on scene. No assessment of the situation. No attempt at de-escalation. Not even a conversation with the boy's family, who did NOT call them to intercede.
Outrage builds as video shows Idaho police shooting a knife-wielding autistic teenager
A teenage boy described by his family as autistic, nonverbal and intellectually disabled remains in critical condition after being shot in his backyard by Idaho police last weekend.
apnews.com
April 9, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Race is obviously a predictor in LEO shootings, but mult studies find that certain disabilities (e.g. autism & deafness) are higher predictors of cop violence than race. Combine disability, inability to communicate and race, and the triad predicts violent cop overreaction like Cassandra pred'd Troy.
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I just got a notice that an academic conference for 2026 was being moved from the US to Canada because of concerns people have with entering the US.
The cell phone searches and random detentions at the border are going to have long-term negative effects on the US.
The cell phone searches and random detentions at the border are going to have long-term negative effects on the US.
April 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I just got a notice that an academic conference for 2026 was being moved from the US to Canada because of concerns people have with entering the US.
The cell phone searches and random detentions at the border are going to have long-term negative effects on the US.
The cell phone searches and random detentions at the border are going to have long-term negative effects on the US.
An old one, but more relevant than ever under Trump.
April 7, 2025 at 2:42 AM
An old one, but more relevant than ever under Trump.
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Frankie Boyle's perspectives on Scottish independence are deeply intertwined with his critiques of media influence and political dynamics in the UK.
Frankie knows.
Frankie knows.
April 5, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Frankie Boyle's perspectives on Scottish independence are deeply intertwined with his critiques of media influence and political dynamics in the UK.
Frankie knows.
Frankie knows.